Holy Week Receptions: Report from Folkestone

Fr Roger Nesbit, parish priest of Our Lady Help of Christians, Folkestone, received 25 members of the Ordinariate, former members of St Peter’s Anglican church in Folkestone, into full communion with the Catholic Church in a packed church on Wednesday of Holy Week 20th April including two former Anglican clerics.

Concelebrating at the Mass was Fr Francis Capener, a former vicar of the same St Peter’s whom Fr Nesbit received into the Church at Our Lady Help of Christians in August 1997 and who has been helping in the parish since then. Fr Nesbit comments:

Where he (Fr Capener) has gone they are following. It is quite providential. The Anglican Bishop of Dover attended the Reception Mass and at the end expressed both his pain and his joy. Those who have been received are a very interesting and committed group who have a great unity, friendship and support for each other in their vocation. There is no doubt that they know what they are doing and they have been taking full part in the Easter Triduum since their reception. You can imagine it has brought new life into the parish here. Their former vicar Fr Stephen Bould will be ordained as a Catholic deacon on 7 May at Aylesford and as a priest on June 4 in our Southwark cathedral. Please remember them all in your prayers please.

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Eternal Father, we place before you the project of forming the Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans seeking full communion with the Catholic Church.

We thank you for this initiative of Pope Benedict XVI, and we ask that, through the Holy Spirit,
the Ordinariates may become:
families of charity, peace and the service of the poor, centres for Christian unity and reconciliation, communities that welcome and evangelize, teaching the Faith in all its fullness, celebrating the liturgy and sacraments with prayerful reverence and maintaining a distinctive patrimony of Christian faith and culture.

Drawing on that heritage we pray:

Go before us, O Lord,
in all our doings
with thy most gracious favour,
and further us
with thy continual help;
that in all our works, begun,
continued and ended in thee,
we may glorify thy holy name,
and finally by thy mercy
obtain everlasting life;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.Amen.

Our Lady of Walsingham:Pray for us as we claim
your motherly care.

Saint Therese of the Infant Jesus:Pray for us as we place this
work under your patronage.

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